febuary 2011 Community order for sex text cop A FORMER community policeman who sent sex texts to a child has been ordered on to a sex offender programme. David Harrison, 29, was given a two-year community order for causing or inciting a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity, when he was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court. The charge relates to text messages he sent to a young girl on May 19 last year. Harrison, who now lives in Waldegrave Gardens, Upminster, but once of Jefferies Way, Stanford-le-Hope, was due to stand trial last month for two further counts of causing or inciting a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity, which he denied. The offences were said to have happened in April 2010 in Corringham, where he was a police community support officer. But on the day the trial was due to begin, he pleaded guilty to the third offence of sending the text messages – the other charges will lie on file. Essex Police had launched an investigation into Harrison’s actions when they came to light and he was suspended from his job as a PCSO. Harrison resigned from his PCSO position before he was due to stand trial. Judge Christopher Mitchell ordered Harrison to complete the community order as well as a two-year supervision order and a sex offender programme. He must also sign the sexual offenders’ register for seven years.